Searching For A Cure For My Facial Tumour | BORN DIFFERENT

AN 18-YEAR-OLD is hopeful that doctors will be able to remove a tumour covering 70% of his eye - despite two already unsuccessful attempts. When Selim Masoud, from Cairo, was born, his eye was attached to his brain. After undergoing surgery to detach it, a non-cancerous tumour emerged on the nerve of his eye, leading doctors to diagnose him with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1).